Blues & Ballads (Reissue) [With Elmer Snowden]
Lonnie Johnson
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Haunted House | Lonnie Johnson | 5:00 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Memories of You | Lonnie Johnson | 4:21 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Blues for Chris | Lonnie Johnson | 5:05 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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I Found a Dream | Lonnie Johnson | 4:33 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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St. Louis Blues | Lonnie Johnson | 3:05 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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I'll Get Along Somehow | Lonnie Johnson | 4:27 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Savoy Blues | Lonnie Johnson | 4:11 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Back Water Blues | Lonnie Johnson | 5:04 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Elmer's Blues | Lonnie Johnson | 3:28 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Jelly Roll Baker | Lonnie Johnson | 4:15 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Album Review
This combination works quite well. Guitarist-singer Lonnie Johnson was just starting a successful comeback, and here he is teamed up with acoustic rhythm guitarist Elmer Snowden (who had not recorded since 1934) and bassist Wendell Marshall. Johnson sings smooth blues and sentimental ballads with equal skill, and both guitarists have opportunities to display their complementary but distinctive styles. This CD reissue is easily recommended, as is its more instrumental counterpart, Blues, Ballads, and Jumpin' Jazz, Vol. 2.
Biography
Born: 08 February 1899 in New Orleans, LA
Genre: Blues
Years Active: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s
Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for the prolific brilliance of Lonnie Johnson. He was there to help define the instrument's future within the genre and the genre's future itself at the very beginning, his melodic conception so far advanced from most of his prewar peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues,...
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Tomorrow Night | Rock 'N' Roll Roots: The Blues Influence | 3:04 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Clementine Blues | The Blues Box | 6:07 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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I'm Not Rough | Backwater Blues | 2:59 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Guitar Blues | Blues for the Road, Vol. 2 | 3:14 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Guitar Blues | Lonnie Johnson Vol. 4 (1928 - 1929) | 3:15 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Haunted House | Blues & Ballads (Reissue) [With Elmer Snowden] | 5:00 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Dope Head Blues | Vintage Songs Of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes | 3:16 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Careless Love | Essential Blues Masters | 2:59 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Blues In G | The History of the Blues | 2:53 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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Guitar Blues | Blues Power Volume 8 | 3:18 | 9,00kr | View In iTunes |
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- 90,00kr
- Genres: Blues, Music, Country Blues, Jazz, Acoustic Blues
- Released: 05 April 1960
- ℗ 1990 Fantasy, Inc.
